 Hey y'all it's Tammy we're out in the garden because we're gonna pick us some purple whole peas and I'm gonna make some fresh purple whole peas. I've heard several of you talking about how much you love them. That's why they're called purple whole peas. So you can see that's about how you want them to look. They need to start turning purple. If you wait till they're all purple then they're a little bit dry on the inside. If you wait till if you pick them before they're purple then they're hard to shell. So this is the perfect consistency or the perfect ripening stage I guess you would say. What would you call it Chris? This is the right time to pick them. All right this is the right time to pick them when they're like this. The bad thing about these peas is they come in all different times. So what we have to do to keep them from getting too dark is we have to come out here and pick a handful every day because we don't have long rows and then I put them in a gallon storage bag. I wait till it gets full and then we spend the evening shelling peas and then we can eat them that week. Hey y'all it's Tammy with Color Valley Cooks. I'm shelling beans. It's time for bed but I need to shell these before I go to bed. These are our purple whole peas that we planted in the garden and I don't have a lot of them but hopefully I'll have enough for me and Chris to eat some. Okay we got our purple whole peas that Chris and I shelled the other night. We did not put them in water or anything we just left them in the bowl just like they were so that they wouldn't get sour or anything. Here is a pod from the garden you can see that it's truly ready to shell and typically I just snip the end off of it pull it down and then we just kind of pinch them you can kind of pinch them through like this or you can take your finger and shell them like that but the bad thing about that is they want to pop all over the place so I usually just push them out that's the way I like to do it. Now if you got arthritis you have to kind of rotate how you do it. Now you can see that when they're freshly shelled they have a purple on their hull. There's a purple around that. Now this is some that has been on the vine too long and they're almost like dried beans already. Now you can dry these out leave them in their hull let them dry out in the sun you can plant them next year. So I have not washed these beans yet we just all we did is shell them I'm going to pour them in my pot and that was about a gallon size three-quarters full. Okay and so this is just after we shelled them I haven't cleaned them out or anything like that so we're gonna go out here rinse them see what floats on the top and get it out that's my favorite way to do it. So I'm just gonna run some water in them, grab some into skin with and I'm gonna squash them. Good. Now let me pick them up so I could see I can't see down in that sink I'm blind I'm old. Old and blind so you can see some of the thin stuff and you can strain it out if you want to you don't have to and it won't hurt your beans or nothing and if you see some beans that look bad you know they just look like they were too ripe or they're paper thin you can get rid of those but it's not a it's not a must or anything because you're gonna be boiling them but sometimes I just like to look and make sure I don't have any bad ones or like here's two ugly ones right here you see those two they're clear-looking like they were a little far gone to be shelled and usually not every time but even with dried beans most of the time the bad stuff floats beans that is and shells and holes and all that kind of stuff now I mean there's some down in there but they're fine so I'm just gonna rinse these out silicone thing that I like to use so just hold it tight and pour the water off now all we're going to do is I think I'll stay right here because I'm going to use the beef broth that I have left from cooking something a couple of nights ago and I'm going to pour it in the beans until it gets right about the top of them I had just enough to make my beans throw those down in there I'm also going to add just a little bit of water so that I don't have to follow here in five minutes and add water because these are going to cook for a little while we're going to get them up here on the stove now I had beef broth you can use chicken broth or beef broth this like I said it's purple whole peas whatever you like to do the most we're having to light it the old-fashioned way it's exciting ain't it alright so I'm going to go ahead and add some salt to it I always do when I'm cooking so I'll just go ahead and put about a half a teaspoon of salt in here for now you can put in oil or butter whichever one you want to use I'm going to use a little olive oil I'm going to turn these down on kind of a medium setting I guess you would call it add some oil I add oil to all my beans because mom I did the only thing I do different is lime of beans I actually use butter in everything else I use oil most time I grab the olive oil I like the way it tastes now I don't use dark olive tasting olive oil I buy extra light virgin and it's kind of clear-looking there's a big difference in the flavor okay so make sure that if you're wanting to taste stuff to taste like what me and Chris are liking it's not that strong greenish-looking olive oil okay it tastes completely different so we're just going to cook these and we're going to simmer them gonna bring them to a boil and then we're going to I'll turn them on up I'm gonna bring them to a boil then I'm gonna turn them down on low and I'm gonna simmer them for at least probably close to an hour all right our peas are ready all I gotta do is taste them and make sure they got enough salt so we're gonna pour them up right here go to your local fridge stand buy some they're coming in this time of year we're gonna taste them y'all right now these are out of the garden and remember what we put in the broth it's just very simple but it tastes so good I've already snuck a taste on y'all what I like about using broth and not meat as you can really taste the vegetable and those are absolutely my favorite peas ever they're better than Phil peas to me and all the other peas combined I love purple whole peas I hope you've enjoyed watching purple whole peas when colored belly cooks where we cook like mama did bye y'all go get you some fresh peas yummy